Justice Is The First Virtue Of Social

The Bad Man Desires Arbitrary Power. What Moves The Evil Man Is The Love Of Injustice.

What's Important Is That People Give The Kinds Of Reasons That Can Be Understood And Appraised Apart From Their Particular Comprehensive Doctrines: For Example, That They Argue Against Physician-assisted Suicide Not Just By Speculating About God's Wrath Or The Afterlife, But By Talking About What They See As Assisted Suicide's Potential Injustices.

In Constant Pursuit Of Money To Finance Campaigns, The Political System Is Simply Unable To Function. Its Deliberative Powers Are Paralyzed.

The Good Of Political Life Is The Good Of Free And Equal Citizens Recognizing The Duty Of Civility To One Another And Supporting The Institutions Of A Constitutional Regime.

Justice Is The First Virtue Of Social Institutions, As Truth Is Of Systems Of Thought. A Theory However Elegant And Economical Must Be Rejected Or Revised If It Is Untrue; Likewise Laws And Institutions No Matter How Efficient And Well-arranged Must Be Reformed Or Abolished If They Are Unjust.